hopper
a person or thing that hops.
Informal. a person who travels or moves frequently from one place or situation to another (usually used in combination): a two-week tour designed for energetic city-hoppers.
any of various jumping insects, as grasshoppers or leafhoppers.
Australian. kangaroo.
a funnel-shaped chamber or bin in which loose material, as grain or coal, is stored temporarily, being filled through the top and dispensed through the bottom.
Railroads. hopper car.
U.S. Politics. a box into which a proposed legislative bill is dropped and thereby officially introduced.
one of the pieces at each side of a hopper casement.
Idioms about hopper
in the hopper, Informal. in preparation; about to be realized: Plans for the class reunion are in the hopper.
Origin of hopper
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Other definitions for Hopper (2 of 2)
Edward, 1882–1967, U.S. painter and etcher.
Grace Murray, 1906–92, U.S. naval officer and computer scientist.
(William) De Wolf [duh-woolf], /də wʊlf/, 1858–1935, U.S. actor.
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How to use hopper in a sentence
One worker, who asked not to be named in order to protect her future employment prospects, left a tile-making job to become a welder, constructing a variety of rail cars, from hoppers to gondolas.
This Company Got a $10 Million PPP Loan, Then Closed Its Plant and Moved Manufacturing Jobs to Mexico | by Lydia DePillis | June 30, 2021 | ProPublicaLoad the pellets in the hopper, set the temp, tap a button, and the grill gets to work.
Optimal Grilling Accessories and Grilling Tools For The Best Backyard BBQ | Irena Collaku | June 25, 2021 | Popular-ScienceNews of the plan prompted an immediate 47% surge in searches for flights to Europe, according to travel analytics firm hopper.
Can Barcelona Fix Its Love-Hate Relationship With Tourists After the Pandemic? | Ciara Nugent | June 9, 2021 | TimeFurther reassured by photos that showed the trees with their creator Kristi Pimentel in her Florida home studio, hopper ordered three.
Here's How Shopping Scams on Facebook Are Ripping Off Thousands of Customers, With the Money Flowing Overseas | Andrew R. Chow | December 19, 2020 | Timehopper, who collects sea glass in Oceanside, California, was impressed by their craftsmanship and also clicked through after seeing the post several times.
Here's How Shopping Scams on Facebook Are Ripping Off Thousands of Customers, With the Money Flowing Overseas | Andrew R. Chow | December 19, 2020 | Time
Stream House of Cards and other Netflix originals right from the hopper.
Edward hopper has long been a living classic of American art.
hopper (1882-1967), had his first major retrospective at the Whitney in 1964.
In the decade following World War I, hopper settled on a vein of imagery that has been his special glory ever since.
Among the latter are the rarely seen etchings hopper produced in 1915–18 when he was doing very little painting.
Each machine has but just sufficient powder in its hopper to run until a new supply can reach it.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge | VariousThe only kind to use are short-hopper closets with a trap that opens into the soil-pipe above the floor.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyThe star ship had not lifted, that message had found its way south, passed along by hopper and merman.
Star Born | Andre NortonDr. hopper wrote a number of poems that were publisht in three volumes.
The Kirk on Rutgers Farm | Frederick BrckbauerEdward hopper came in 1868 and on June 29, 1869, he was installed as pastor.
The Kirk on Rutgers Farm | Frederick Brckbauer
British Dictionary definitions for hopper (1 of 2)
/ (ˈhɒpə) /
a person or thing that hops
a funnel-shaped chamber or reservoir from which solid materials can be discharged under gravity into a receptacle below, esp for feeding fuel to a furnace, loading a railway truck with grain, etc
a machine used for picking hops
any of various long-legged hopping insects, esp the grasshopper, leaf hopper, and immature locust
Also called: hoppercar an open-topped railway truck for bulk transport of loose minerals, etc, unloaded through doors on the underside
Southern African another name for cocopan
computing a device formerly used for holding punched cards and feeding them to a card punch or card reader
British Dictionary definitions for Hopper (2 of 2)
/ (ˈhɒpə) /
Edward. 1882–1967, US painter, noted for his realistic depiction of everyday scenes
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Scientific definitions for Hopper
[ hŏp′ər ]
American mathematician and computer programmer who in 1951 conceived the idea for an internal computer program, called a compiler, that scanned a set of alphanumeric instructions (such as words and symbols) and compiled a set of binary instructions executed by the machine. Her ideas were widely influential in the development of programming languages, in particular COBOL.
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